The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

According to The Philadelphia Times, the
excellent manual training schools of Phila-
delphia are mainly filed with the sons of
wealthy men. In sending their sons to these
schools the wealthy men show their good
sense; but ii will be pity if the sons of poor
men are thereby deprived of the opportunity
of attending them.
man who died in England lately left
legacies to the extent of e55,0 900, and stipu-
lated for a brass band at his funeral and a
banquet to the mourners By the time the
last bones of the banquet had been picked
Clean it was ascertained that his whole pos
sessions consisted of a thirty shilling horse
and e3 worth Of coarse hay.
Readers of some of the London papers fire.
quently find CHASTITY red human skeleton
pasted on conspicuous part of their paper.
This is not the work of the publishers, but of
an enterprising quack doctor who takes this
way of advertising his nostrums.
Lamar Fontaine, who claims the author
ship of "All quiet along the Potomac to-
night" is a witness in the trial of Hamilton
for the murder of Gambrell at Jackson, Miss.
He appears an expert in pistol practice,
and it is claimed that he is able to fire num-
Der of shots into the bunghole of barrel roll
ing down hill
Mr.. Eadweard Muybridge has just COM
pleted the plates of his work on "Animal Lo-
comotion," with reproductions of nearly 30
600 instantaneous photographs of men and
animals in almost every imaginable position,
representing part of the investigation carried
: on by the University of Pennsylvania
A Winnipeg photographer has put himself
| in way to have fine lot of libel slits. He
recently exhibited case full of photographs
| of his debtors, each being labeled with the
name, address and Indebtedness of the person
represented.
| Oscar Wilde has blossomed out as a novel
| ist of the blood and thunder school. One of
| the London society papers is printing serial
| story from his pen entitled 2Lcrd Arthur Sa-
vflles Crime; a Tale of Chiromancy."
| Queen Victoria mas declared her intention
| of ''patronizing' a projected exhibition of
articles belonging to Mary Queen of Scots,
and has asked that catalogue of the relics
when ready shall be sent to her.
| A London shopkeeper was recently fined
under the new act of parliament for keeping
two of his girls at work for ninety-seven
hours in week-sixteen hours and half
| day-that is, for six days running.
| 1t is said that John Greenleaf Whittier and
Robert Purvis, of Philadelphia, are the only
original members now living of the Ameri-
can Anti-Slavery society.
a Decatur, Ills, man, who has been testing
| the capacity of the sparrow to withstand the
| effects of poison, gave one bird a grain of
| crystal strychnine without effect.
| Unusually low water in Lake Constance
has been bringing to light many valuable and
| interesting relics of the prehistoric lake
| dwellerS
The personal estate of the late J. d. Per-
rims, proprietor of the celebrated Worcester
shire sauce, amounted to nearly s., 000,0 900.
The real estate sales of New York for the
| first four months of the year foot up in round
numbers $50, 900, 900.
Two hundred and sixty-two pairs of twins
were born in Chicago during 1886
1t is estimated that there are 125, 900 old
| soldiers in the state of Kansas